Cortina v. Cortina

How courts have described this case

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• holding that trial court erred in granting injunctive relief that was not requested by the parties
• a decree cannot be modified unless the issue of modification is presented in appropriate proceedings and the parties are given opportunity to be heard
• “It is fundamental that a judgment upon a matter entirely outside of the issues made by the pleadings cannot stand.”
• where ex-husband initiated a contempt proceeding against ex-wife for failure to allow visitation, trial judge did not have power to modify the support provisions of the final decree sua sponte
• a judgment upon a matter entirely outside of issues made by pleadings cannot stand

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).